It is related of an Englishman that he hanged himself to avoid the daily task of dressing and undressing. — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Copy Share Image
An Englishmen thinks seated; a Frenchmen standing; an American pacing, an Irishman, afterwards. — Austin O'Malley Copy Share Image
But at the time when he wrote, Englishmen, with the rarest exceptions, wrote only in French or Latin; and when they began… — George Saintsbury Copy Share Image
Good ale, the true and proper drink of Englishmen. He is not deserving of the name of Englishman who speaketh against ale,… — George Henry Borrow Copy Share Image
My plea is for banishing the English language as a cultural usurper, as we successfully banished the political rule of the English… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
...the true spirit of gastronomic joylessness. Porridge fills the Englishman up, and prunes clear him out. — E. M. Forster Copy Share Image
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and taciturnity. Nobody… — Karel Capek Copy Share Image
I sound like an Englishman impersonating an American impersonating an Englishman. — Billie Joe Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Englishmen who came here had the spirit of close kinsmen in all they did; often were blood related and moved from place… — Pressey Edward Pearson Clapp Robert Parker Gunn Mrs. Lyman O Copy Share Image
There is no second country for an Englishman, except a ship and the sea. — Madame de Stael Copy Share Image
The Frenchman invented the ruffle; the Englishman added the shirt. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
We Hindus and Mohamedans would have to blame our folly rather than the English, if we allowed them to put us asunder. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
I descend from both Philadelphia Quakers and Carolina colonists whose families were separated by the Revolutionary War. That helped give me insight… — Edward Rutherfurd Copy Share Image
The depressing thing about an Englishman's traditional love of animals is the dishonesty thereof ... Get a barbed hook into the upper… — Clement Freud Copy Share Image
Eyes are bold as lions,--roving, running, leaping, here and there, far and near. They speak all languages. They wait for no introduction;… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
“He was just one of those Englishmen who was always saying silly things to sound less pompous, and pompous things to sound… — Edward St. Aubyn Copy Share Image
“Englishmen are not usually softened by appeals to the memory of their mothers.” — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
The Englishman who has lost his fortune is said to have died of a broken heart. — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
An Englishman will take you into a large room, beautifully proportioned, and will point out to you that it is white- all… — Edward Elgar Copy Share Image
A blaspheming Frenchman is a spectacle more pleasing to the Lord than a praying Englishman. — Heinrich Heine Copy Share Image
Tennis was a game invented by a woman named Samantha Tennis in 1839, in the village of Lobsworth, County of Kent, as… — Dan Jenkins Copy Share Image
It is derogatory to the dignity of mankind, it is derogatory to the dignity of India, to entertain for one single moment… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
The Englishman can get along with sex quite perfectly so long as he can pretend that it isn't sex but something else. — James Agate Copy Share Image
“By the early seventies I had become an Englishman – that is to say, I hated England just as much as half… — Nick Hornby Copy Share Image
The British are weak in numbers, we are weak in spite of our numbers. — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
